A company has emerged that keeps dead bodies frozen at cryogenic temperatures until they can be revived in the future.
According to the New York Post on the 20th (local time), Tomorrow Bio, a high-tech start-up company in Berlin, keeps the body frozen for $220,000 and a monthly fee of $55.
If only the brain freezes, you have to pay $80,000.
“I believe I can witness the safe cryopreservation and regeneration of complex organisms before the end of my current 40-year-old life,” company founder Fernando Azevedo Finheiro told the Daily Mail.
“Fear of death is the main motive for using the service,” he said. “Frozen preservation provides them with a sense of hope and stability, providing them with a potential path to prolong life.”
He said six people and five pets have been kept frozen so far and there are 650 people on standby. The average age of those on standby is 36, he said.
“Using a modified ambulance that functions as a mobile operating room, cryopreservation begins immediately after the patient is legally declared dead,” Tomorrow Bio said.
“We use medical antifreeze to prevent fluid damage to the body at low temperatures,” he said. “The body is kept frozen by dropping to minus 195 degrees Celsius for a week, and then stored in a long steel container containing liquid nitrogen for long-term storage.”
He added, “If the patient does not use up the amount paid until he is successfully resuscitated, the remaining amount will be refunded.”
According to the company, it currently has storage facilities across Europe, including Berlin and Amsterdam, and plans to build storage facilities in New York.
EJ SONG
US ASIA JOURNAL
